On 29-7-2012 22:36, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
Just curious: will ConTeXt use the fontconfig mechanism some day or are
there technical/philosophical reasons not to?
Do you mean MKII or MKIV? For MKII the answer is no. MKIV can - to a
certain extent - read and interpret fontconfig's XML configuration
file. The real question is whether ConTeXt finds the right file. On
windows there is fonts.conf used by XeTeX and it might be that MKIV
reads that file, but I'm not sure.
Last time I checked (more than a year ago) it did read that file. You
can check that with
\enabletrackers[fonts.names]
when the database is generated.
There is no seriously technical reason, it's more that developers
aren't too eager to have dependencies on external libraries. And the
fact that at least on Windows and Mac the system fonts are being
searched for on their standard locations.
Or: "the developers never check that as they don't depend on system
fonts in projects" (I always copy font files to known locations i.e.
texmf-fonts).
Hans
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